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Mt. Everest Summit

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Oldest Man: In 2013, Yuichiro Miura became the oldest person to summit Everest at the age of 80.

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Left for Dead... Twice: Beck Weathers was attempting to summit during the 1996 Everest tragedy that killed nine climbers. Left for dead from severe frostbite and not responding, he somehow came to and walked to meet up with his team.

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Five years later, two climbers attempted to bring her remains down from Everest. They both fell to their deaths during the attempt..

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Body Recovered: Shriya Shah-Klorfine was 33-years-old when she died almost at the summit. That altitude makes it almost impossible to recover the body safely.

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Frozen Marker: Hannelore Schmatz was warned to keep moving in 1979, but she and a fellow climber decided to sit down and rest. They never got back up. Her frozen body served as a trail marker for other climbers for years.

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Death Wish: There once was a crazy man named Maurice Wilson who had a plan to crash a plane on Everest, then climb the rest of the way up... despite not being a pilot or a climber.

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Cameraman Blair Griffiths was one of those climbers. A six story high block of ice fell and crushed him to death in 1982.

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Angela Merkel had to unwind after that big G20 Summit.

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Wrong Place, Wrong Time: Seracs are massive walls of ice that can fall down on a climber at any given time, leaving no hope to get out of its way.

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Green Boots: This frozen body of a climber is known as Green Boots because of the boots he is wearing that stick out of the cave entrance he died in. He is believed to have been part of an Indian party from 1996.

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In 2006, David Sharp crawled into the same cave, fighting to survive. Some climbers walked past him, thinking he was Green Boots. A few did speak to him, but there was nothing they could do. Some even claimed Sharp was frozen to the rock where he sat.

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What makes his survival on Everest even more amazing than his age, is that he has had four heart operations and was still recovering from a broken pelvis.

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Extreme: Tomas Olsson and his partner were on their way down Everest... on skis. Yes, the extreme sports enthusiasts were attempting to ski down when they found an area that they had to rappel.

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Shockingly, Wilson learned enough about flying to get him to Everest in 1934 and tried unsuccessfully to reach the top, mainly due to his inexperience. He refused to leave with his Sherpas and tried again, alone. He died in his tent.

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Unfortunately, the snow anchor they were using failed and Olsson plummeted to his death. His partner however, skied and climbed down to safety.

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Sherpas braved the odds and recovered her body 10 days later, slowly lowering her body on a sled and lifting her over crevasses. All rescuers survived the mission.

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Oxygen Issues: In 1998, Francys Arsentiev became the first woman from the U.S. to reach the top without the aid of bottled oxygen. However, she and her husband, Sergei, had to spend over three days at the dangerous level of 8,000 meters to do it.